Ed Tarnowski
@edtarnowski
Tech policy, @RSI | Founder and Editor, @ComputeOptimist | Senior Contributor, @JoinYoungVoices | Alum, @EdChoice | Rhode Island native | Views are my own 🇺🇸
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Anti-AI and Anti-data center hysteria is literally just a repeat of the Anti-nuclear hysteria of the 70s. That one cost us decades of advancements in the field of power generation and the cheap, abundant energy it would have brought. Don't repeat it with this new tech.
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This is just absurd!
Pass the damn bill.
Let them build! 🏗️ 💪
They should pass permitting reform in the lame duck. Probably the last chance for a long time
So excited to come out of stealth and launch Liquid Energy.
Incredibly proud of what we built.
This is the way to truly scale compute.
Next step, Kardashev Type I
the big @TheFIREorg "Soapbox" conference is getting underway in Philly this morning with inspiring keynotes from @glukianoff & @NicoPerrino.
A celebration of freedom of speech.
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California once every 4 years:
An October @IFP report estimates the US has just a 6.5 month AI lead over China.
If anything like the below is ever enacted, America loses this competition. And the autocratic world will be in an unprecedented position to set the global terms.
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Top of the Democratic agenda on day 1 needs to be a pause on advanced AI development, regulation of this out of control industry, and a ban on artificial superintelligence.
New from @RSI tech team: "What the Midterms Mean for Technology and AI"
With thoughts on various tech policy issues from @MarrrkDalton, @NaThielman, @JGWithrow, @edtarnowski, @SpenceKjell, Wayne Brough and me:
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Philly’s train station never fails to stun
Who is headed to Philly for FIRE Soapbox? See you there!!
How important was AI and data centers to your vote?
Crucial: 23%
Major factor / minor factor / non-factor: 77%
My mom’s stage IV cancer diagnosis made an underappreciated consideration in treatment soberingly apparent: location.
In @ComputeOptimist’s debut piece, I write about how an experimental breakthrough in AI-powered robotics could vastly expand access to specialized surgical care
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In the last 24 hours, I've seen several attempts at logging into accounts of mine, including X and others (someone likely obtained my passwords via a breach bc I've received 2FA codes)
Friends, remember to have 2FA turned on for everything. And use a proper authenticator.
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When Mount Saint Helens erupted 46 years ago today, nothing survived that was within 230 square miles of the explosion.
Except for photographer Richard Lasher who escaped on his dirt bike after taking this shot.
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Correct. And we all need to do a better job at communicating this to the average joe. We can only beat propaganda with better argument (and the truth)
Perhaps the biggest issue in data center opposition is that the average person thinks AI is just for social media slop.
They don’t realize a new industrial revolution just got kicked off.
Perhaps the biggest issue in data center opposition is that the average person thinks AI is just for social media slop.
They don’t realize a new industrial revolution just got kicked off.
80 days of the regime-imposed internet blackout in Iran.
